Sep 9th 2023
The world this week
Leaders
Cash v chaos
The Gulf’s boundless ambition to change the world
Now it wants to export its model. But the region faces grave dangers
Reform thyself
America’s Supreme Court should adopt new ethics standards
Lifetime tenure can easily slip into entitlement
The man who may be president
Can Javier Milei’s radical libertarianism save Argentina?
Our interview explores his wild economic ideas—and his authoritarian streak
In hot water
Heat pumps show how hard decarbonisation will be
The row over them portends more backlashes against greenery
Wealth management for the many
Wall Street is racing to manage your wealth. That is a good thing
The hottest trend in finance offers more than just fat profits for advisers
Belt and Road at ten
China’s Belt and Road Initiative will keep testing the West
The projects are smaller, the challenge is growing
Letters
On the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, Britain’s green belts, Germany, Malaysia, Saudi customs
Letters to the editor
By Invitation
Europe’s economic challenges
Mario Draghi on the path to fiscal union in the euro zone
Briefing
Reorientation
The Gulf countries want to reshape the Middle East in their image
Stability and development is a tempting formula, but it has been tried before
United States
Coming cleaner
Can America’s Supreme Court police itself?
Chicken Tocqueville
Where do Americans mingle?
The third line
How the Pentagon assesses Ukraine’s progress
Blocked bookings
New York City is restricting Airbnb
The counter-revolutionaries
An unusual coalition is emerging in California’s school-board fights
The Americas
Argentina’s next president?
Meet Javier Milei, the front-runner to be Argentina’s next president
Señora Presidenta
Two women are vying to be Mexico’s next president
Asia
South-East Asian succession
What will Indonesia look like after Jokowi leaves?
Lost tribe of the steppes
Uzbekistan’s Bukharan Jews are disappearing
China
Where to from here?
The path ahead for China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Middle East & Africa
Bulldoze the buried
Egypt’s government wants to erase a historic cemetery
Only connect
A new railway will at last link Iran and Iraq
Bluster and bluff
Deterring would-be putschists in Africa is getting harder
The perilous path of change
In just 100 days Nigeria’s new president has made bold reforms
Europe
Four more years
The undeclared race to replace Emmanuel Macron
Crime and punishment
Inside Ukraine’s assassination programme
Zelensky’s shuffle
Is Ukraine really interested in fighting corruption?
Point of no return
The uncertain future of Greeks in Turkey
German engineering
Stuttgart’s ever-receding station is Germany’s latest transport fiasco
Charlemagne
The EU’s rotating presidency should be scrapped
Britain
Clean energy
Britain is losing its way in cutting carbon
River pollution and housing
Britain will ease some environmental rules for housebuilders
The invention of exercise
How London bus drivers changed the world
Policing the police
Should Britain’s police chiefs be able to sack rogue officers?
Ethnicity and health
What is killing white Britons?
Bare-faced cheek
British MPs debate a crisis over school buildings. Childishly
International
The new zing in zoning
The growing global movement to restrain house prices
Business
AI with Chinese characteristics
Meet Ernie, China’s answer to ChatGPT
Shovel-unready
German builders are on the brink of collapse
Island shopping
TikTok is wading into South-East Asia’s e-commerce wars
Workers of the world unite
A strike at Chevron shows a reinvigorated union movement
Biding the Bullet
Meet the world’s most enduring product
Finance & economics
Rich and famous
The $100trn battle for the world’s wealthiest people
Buttonwood
Should you fix your mortgage for ever?
Crude sophistication
A higher global oil price will help Russia pay for its war
Official blessing
The end of a remarkable era in Indian finance
Spillovers aren’t over
China’s slowdown is rattling Asian economies
Prophets of maximisation
How Chicago school economists reshaped American justice
Free exchange
Argentina needs to default, not dollarise
Science & technology
All that gas
Propane-powered heat pumps are greener
The ears of corn
Plants don’t have ears. But they can still detect sound
Easy fieldwork
Animals can be tracked by simply swabbing leaves
Culture
Rome and its popes
A history of the papacy and its relationship with Rome
Laugh, the beloved country
Trevor Noah’s tour spotlights South African comedy
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail
The Economist explains
The Economist explains
A primer on Trump’s criminal trials
The Economist explains
Why France is banning Muslim clothing in schools (again)
Obituary
Building revolution